My job's base pay is $15 an hour BUT we all share the tip pool which boosts it to roughly $19-$20 and hour. We have a system called yellows where if you do something against policy you're docked a whole $1 an hour FOR THE WHOLE WEEK. You'd think getting yellows would involve doing something pretty extreme, right? No no no. Before every shift we have to call and make sure that they need us for the day (it's to the point some weeks I'm scheduled to work 3 days and work one. I've even had 3 days and got cut all 3 before!) Which would be fine if it was like 2 or 3 hours in advance, but they only accept an hour. So if you don't work until 6pm, you can't call until 5pm. Which completely ruins your whole day since you're unsure if you should make plans or not. If you don't call within 5 minutes past the hour, you get a yellow. BOOM $1 extra per hour gone for the week.
My recent yellow really pisses me off. I picked up a shift today and even stayed later than I was supposed to, but I have work in the am tomorrow so I was rushing to get out of there before the required 8 hour limit. I accidentally forgot to punch out for the first time in the 8months I've been here. BOOM yellow. The thing that really irritates me is that once before I've forgotten to punch in a whole hour after working. They fixed it in 3 minutes and didn't even bat an eye. So please explain to me why I get a yellow for forgetting to punch out? My manager caught it 45 minutes after I left, not like it was a whole day. At my past jobs if this happened, we'd just write a note apologizing and saying what time we were in and out and what time we breaked and went about our day.
This job is really starting to get on my nerves.